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Our Mission

We have a very clear mission. We set out to propel the understanding, application and appreciation of creativity and design. Our drive is to encourage as many people as possible to explore their creativity and live creative lives.

Our Vision

Our starting point is that creativity leads to richer and fuller lives. We belief that the world is better off when people motivate themselves and others to use their creative potential. It's a leap of faith but too important to not to try.

My Story

Stephan KardosFounder of The Creativity And Design Gym

"I started 'the gym' early 2014 as a side project which emerged from Open IDEO's'creative confidence challenge'. My goal was to foster creative confidence and human-centered design in my local community. Since then I started and cooperated on lots of projects.

Since the beginnings I designed and facilitated 30+ community workouts, spoke about creativity in front of big and small audiences, co-created a card game on SDGs, designed a learning module for design thinking for european-wide education project, lectured in university programs, wrote on creativity, and much more.

All of things above seemed very unreal back in 2014. I grew a lot, personally and professionally, and want to support others to do so, too.

I wish for more people to regain their creative confidence because then, to quote David Kelley, "magic happens".